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Show Owen D. Young, The Man All the world knows of the achievements achieve-ments of Owen D. Young, the American Ameri-can business man who was a member of the committee which formulated the Dawes plan for a temporary adjustment ad-justment of war reparation payments, and who only recently headed a second sec-ond comittee whlcn arranged the Young Compromise, settling the reparations rep-arations question permanently. But how he reached his present eminence in the world of affairs is not so well known. perhaps he ' could explain it himsei?. The story is another an-other illustration of what America offers to ambitious and energetic youth. Born in 1874 on a farm near Van Hornesville, New York, his early life was similar to that of the averasy farm boy. He attended school in a nearby town, and of this period he says: "I came home every Friday night, and on Monday morning my father would drive me back to school with a cheese box mil of provisions in the rear end of the wagon." Finishing high school, he had his first train ride at the age of 16, when he went to St. Lawrence University in Canton and worked his way through Then he worked his way through the Boston University law school, from which he was graduated in 1896. He began practice in Boston, specializing in corporation law, oecame general counsel of the General Electric Company Com-pany and later chairman; is also chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America and a director ir. many other large corporations. Mr. Young married at the age of 23; is the father of five children, one of whom died; he spends a part of each summer on the farm, breeds Holstein cattle, collects rare books and is too busy .for golf. He is especially interested in the welfare of the laboring la-boring classes and in a betterment of social conditions generally. He is an American farm boy who has made good in an extraordinary way. |